Филологические науки/ 1.Методика преподавания языка и литературы

Aubakirova G.T., candidate of philological sciences, professor

Chief of the department of foreign and Russian languages

Karaganda Economic University Kazpotrebsoyuz, Kazakhstan

THE POTENTIAL OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES IN EDUCATION

Our world today has changed a great deal with the aid of information technology. Things that were once done manually or by hand have now become computerized operating systems, which simply require a single click of a mouse to get a task completed. With the aid of IT we are not only able to stream line our business processes but we are also able to get constant information in 'real time' that is up to the minute and up to date.

The significance of IT can be seen from the fact that it has penetrated almost every aspect of our daily lives from business to leisure and even society. Today personal PCs, cell phones, fax machines, pagers, email and internet have all not only become an integral part of our very culture but also play an essential role in our day to day activities. With such a wide scope for the purpose of this article we shall focus on the impact of the internet in information technology. Before we can know about all the advantages and disadvantages of information technology, it is essential that we know what information technology is exactly, and why it has it come to play such a important role in our daily lives. Today information technology involves more than just computer literacy; it also takes into account how computers work and how these computers can further be used not just for information processing but also for communications and problem solving tasks as well.

The main tasks of informatization of educational institutions are: the implementation of IT to the educational process, raising the level of professional competence of teachers in modern mass introduction of information technology in the educational process: raising the professional information culture of the student, creating an information environment of educational institutions that would facilitate the preparation of competitive specialists.

The necessary conditions of for the informatization of educational establishments are the following:

1) technical specifications (computerization)

2) methodological conditions (teacher training, availability of electronic books, information products)

3) social education (the definition of the persons who need the information competence)

4) management conditions (the formation of the necessary legal and regulatory framework).

Experts in the field of information problems lay emphasis on the following basic functions of information that are executed in the education system.

1) Motivational: stimulating cognitive activities of students through the transfer of management functions of the educational activities, fixing actual results achieved, as well as training in the context of future professional activity.

2) Developmental: training in information and computing environment (ICS) promotes the development of reflexive forms and activates productive forms of thinking and creativity of students.

3) Prognostic: prognostic information can be used to determine the prospects for student’ education. It is realized by removing the current load on the processing of input data.

4) Controlling: Provides control of students education through the use of automated test control.

5) Compensatory: helps to eliminate gaps in the knowledge of students through the use of didactic information systems during the self-training.

6) Information: provides students with access to reference information, regulations, best practices, pedagogical software tools across multiple databases.

7) Modeling: an opportunity to expand the educational-cognitive activity due to control problems of objects interactively.

8) Communicative: allows students to make the transition to the position of the subject of learning and cognitive activity.

At present, the introduction of information technologies in educational process and in the management of the university implemented within developed the Concept of National Education Policy of the Republic of Kazakhstan, and legally regulated by federal law "On information, information technologies and data protection

Mechanisms used in the education of IT influence the formation of the personality, lifestyle, interpersonal communication, knowledge, and promote growth of new knowledge in society in general and in the particular. IT has three components: infrastructure (technical equipment and data network), infostructure (content, content of electronic resources) and information competence of users. The possibility and effectiveness of IT in distance education affect the availability and quality of each component of all participants in the educational process: students, teachers and administrators of educational institutions.

The main directions of development and implementation of ICT in the educational, scientific, management process are:

1) formation of a local set using a dedicated channel to access the Internet;

2) equipped computer classes and reading rooms with Internet access and local area network;

3) creation of a public educational server using a content management system educational site;

4) creating opportunities to access to the personalized content server for each student and teacher;

5) providing readers library of electronic educational resources on-line media (CD and DVD-ROM);

6) development of regulations governing the establishment and requirements for electronic educational editions;

8) training for all teachers of the educational institution to use information technologies and increase their skills in this area;

9) creation of educational content and various networking of electronic educational books (EEB), EEP multimedia, educational, scientific and popular movies;

10) introduction of automation components and auxiliary processing accounting information management practices in the educational process (information technology accounting performance based on ratings, a database of students, teachers).

Analyzing the experience, we can note the positive results. Firstly, increased overall information literacy of students and teachers, which is not only for the application of IT in the learning process, but the most important contemporary specialist expertise. Secondly, the necessary conditions for supporting an access educational materials, regardless of the time and place. Students can take as printed, books and manuals, and electronic publications EEB online or offline version (on CD), which eliminates the problem of availability of students’ academic and reference books. Third, provided a decent quality of EEB. All electronic resources are being developed to comply with regulations adopted by the academy and is based on domestic and international standards. Copyright and property rights are protected by the state registration of EEB as databases and software for personal computers.

There are also social and psychological benefits of IT in the learning process. All participants in distance learning feel empathy towards direct communication. This is achieved through the use and role-playing games, including the communication of students and teachers at the Forum (for example, the study subjects' culture of business communication "and" The Psychology of Management "for the specialty" Vocational Training (by industry). ")

Information technologies are widely used in educational institutions of the Republic of Kazakhstan, located in different regions and representing various groups of professions (engineering, humanities, etc.). The most widespread application of information technology has in distance education. But it should be noted that not all the features elucidated the impact of information technology on the formation of the individual graduate. There remains the possibility of educational influence on the personality of the future specialist, so as to transfer knowledge and control over their learning, even with the help of advanced equipment its impossible to provide the impact that occurs when the direct communication of teachers and students. These may be additional methods of work aimed at developing the individual professional. This requires a concept of identity formation in terms of professional competence approach. To implement it requires new methods based on the information technology (perhaps those that are similar to the methods of influence on public opinion and public awareness through media and create a system of public relations at the university.

As is already known about the significant impact of media and information and communication technologies (ICTs) on the mass consciousness, we can assume that the use of ICT in filling the content, appropriate educational objectives will be very effective.

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